Skype To Acquire Qik For ~$100 Million -- Source

Internet phone giant Skype has acquired Qik, the service that lets you stream video from your smartphone, for around $100 million, a source tells us.

Skype will probably announce the news this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, this source says.

We've reached out to Qik and Skype for confirmation but have not heard back. This is a reliable source, however, who has been correct about big acquisitions in the past.

Qik had a huge 2010. According to the company blog, it started the year with 600,000 users and ended with 5 million. The huge bump came in large part thanks to partners like Sprint, T-Mobile, Nokia, and Samsung. That makes the hero of today's deal a guy named Bob Rosin, the company's EVP of business and corporate development. He's the one who nailed down all those deals.

Qik is also considered the best video streaming option for Google's mobile OS, Android, which exploded in popularity this year.